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From Aches to Ease: A Gentle Restorative Practice Circle

Learn simple tools and discover a fresh approach to reduce pain and restore natural ease.

Are you 55+ and experiencing aches or stiffness? This one-hour restorative practice circle is designed to help you reconnect with your body, move with more awareness, and feel lighter, calmer, and more hopeful about your physical health.

  • Be part of a welcoming community of people who want to keep learning new ways to stay healthy and active beyond the aches and pains
  • Discover practical ways to release tension and improve daily comfort
  • Stay connected to your personal wellness journey
  • Restore your energy so you can feel calmer and lighter

$20 (first time is free!)
Friday mornings, 10–11 a.m.
November 14 and December 12, 2025

From-Aches-to-Ease Program

Discover how the Alexander Technique can transform the way you move, breathe, and live.

This five-week program offers a deeper dive into the principles of the Alexander Technique, giving you practical tools to reduce tension, move with freedom, and restore natural balance in your everyday life.

Through gentle guided practice, discussion, and personal exploration, you’ll learn how to:

  • Recognize and release habits that create unnecessary strain
  • Improve posture and balance without “trying harder”
  • Breathe with more ease and efficiency
  • Apply Alexander principles to everyday activities—walking, sitting, reaching, lifting
  • Cultivate a renewed sense of vitality, comfort, and confidence in your body

$175 per person
Thursdays, 10–11:30 am
November 6 – December 4, 2025

Personalized 5-Session Package

Discover how the Alexander Technique can transform the way you move, breathe, and live.

Personal, in-depth, one-hour weekly sessions with Christel in her studio. With hands-on guidance and laser-focused attention, the client can make steady progress to retrain how they move in their daily life. It also includes self-help resources and tools that the client can use to get the body and emotions out of stress state.

$450 per person
Thursdays, 10–11:30 am
November 6 – December 4, 2025

Regular Individual Rates

First lesson (1.5 hours): $120
Subsequent lessons (45 minutes): $100
10 lessons: $900

  • Book a free Posture Awareness Checkup with Christel!

    To make a 20-minute appointment, please send me an email or call/text me at 519.823.3541.

  • Book an Appointment!

    To make an appointment, please visit my new calendar here. We are testing it out – send me an email
    at christel@forwardandup.ca or call me at 519.823.3541 if you have any issues booking.

    123 Woolwich Street
    (near Eramosa)
    First Floor
    Parking at back, spots 7 or 8,
    or on the street
    Downtown Guelph, Ontario
    N1H 3V1

  • Other Healers in Guelph

    Steel Health Centre: The Steel Technique™ is an energy harmonizing technique that works by clearing the body’s energetic system of blockages and interference’s so that your body’s inborn healing potential can be fully expressed.

    Susan Bushell is a gifted and compassionate energy therapist and EFT trainer with many years of experience.

  • Articles in the Media

    Alexander Technique more effective than medication for chronic neck pain – Global Television report on scientific study

    Alexander Technique "does ease back pain" – article in the Guardian on scientific study

    Alexander Technique: A Balm For Back Pain? – NPR article on a musician who tried AT




  • Christel Herick is a certified teacher
    of the Alexander Technique.